• BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: One of the most widely studied perceptual measures of sensory dysfunction in dystonia is the temporal discrimination threshold (TDT) (the shortest interval at which subjects can perceive that there are two stimuli rather than one). (ox.ac.uk)
  • Operationally, discrimination learning is instrumental in that reinforcement is contingent on the subject choosing between the stimuli. (jneurosci.org)
  • Recent studies show an age-dependent impairment in orientation discrimination of stimuli embedded in external noise, suggesting that encoding of orientation is inefficient in older adults. (frontiersin.org)
  • In human psychophysics, decision making in a binary orientation discrimination task requires a neural decoding operation ( Gold and Ding, 2013 ) to select which of two alternative presented stimuli is the target. (frontiersin.org)
  • One alternative to MTS is the go/no-go procedure (Serna, Dube, & McIlvane, 1997), which requires the student to make a simple discrimination (i.e., same/different) between two stimuli that are presented simultaneously. (wmich.edu)
  • This course is an introductory survey of developmental psychology from birth through adulthood and death. (ncat.edu)
  • Developmental psychology combines all three aspects in taking for its subject matter the total life span. (mta.ca)
  • 2304 Developmental Psychology (3-0). (angelo.edu)
  • The program provides students with an understanding of the scientific foundations of psychology (social, developmental and cognitive), as well as direct research experience (experimental design, data collection, data analysis and research writing). (brandeis.edu)
  • She supervises doctoral students (three presently, and three that have finished fulfilled the PhD program) and thesis students at Candidate and Master level and teaches Developmental, Organizational and Personality Psychology, Creativity and Gender at basic and advanced levels. (lu.se)
  • Within developmental psychology, self-image, well-being, attachment and executive functions are explored in children, adolescents and young adults. (lu.se)
  • The Department of Psychology at the University of Memphis has a very active and productive Experimental Psychology Program. (memphis.edu)
  • D. Program in Experimental Psychology must be received by January 15 for entrance the following Fall semester. (memphis.edu)
  • 3301 Experimental Psychology (3-0). (angelo.edu)
  • This course seeks to provide an integrated blend of content and methodology in representative areas of experimental psychology, with methods discussed in the context of actual research. (angelo.edu)
  • This spring, the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General published the results of an unusual research contest , in which Lai tested suggestions, submitted by more than 20 experts, for how to reduce unconscious bias against African-Americans, and ranked them based on their impact. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Prerequisite: Psychology 2301 or Sociology 1301. (angelo.edu)
  • If you ask an intellectual, a leftist or an academic in a sociology or psychology department, he will tell you that it is caused by poverty, discrimination and a lack of opportunities. (gopusa.com)
  • The general aim of the course is to provide the future psychologist with knowledge and skills within sociology, social psychology and group/organisational psychology related to man as a social and cultural being. (lu.se)
  • The course will examine several topics relevant to Black psychology such as racism, racial identity, family, community, spirituality, and African American mental health. (ncat.edu)
  • Further, perceptions of racial discrimination and feelings of social isolation may also play a role. (gc.ca)
  • In observance of International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we discuss how we can change the narrative and stand up against racial discrimination. (cvmtv.com)
  • I t may not be easy to admit, but chances are you've been guilty of racial discrimination. (bostonglobe.com)
  • On the law-enforcement front, de-biasing work has begun to make its way into the real world, with some experts working directly with police departments around the country to train officers, and set department policy, in a way that minimizes racial discrimination. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Many say they are protesting against police treatment of blacks and racial discrimination. (gopusa.com)
  • I wonder whether your intellectual, leftist or academic would explain that we had less black poverty, less racial discrimination and far greater opportunities for blacks during earlier periods than we do today. (gopusa.com)
  • While prior research has demonstrated the significance of emotion regulation in explaining the onset and development of discrimination-related anxiety , few studies investigated this dynamic with cognitive flexibility among sexual and/or racial minority individuals. (bvsalud.org)
  • 221 individuals, 37.6% of whom (n = 83) identified as sexual and/or racial minorities , responded to an online questionnaire about their levels of cognitive flexibility and emotion regulation , perceived discrimination , and anxiety . (bvsalud.org)
  • The Protecting Family Caregivers from Discrimination Act introduced by Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) if signed into law would prohibit discrimination against employees for their caregiving responsibilities, prohibit employer retaliation if the employee seeks enforcement measures, and establish a grant program to aid in combating caregiver discrimination. (wikipedia.org)
  • The University prohibits any form of retaliation taken against anyone for reporting discrimination, harassment, or retaliation for otherwise engaging in protected activity. (unomaha.edu)
  • Suppressed Anger, Retaliation Doctrine, and Workplace Culture is an interdisciplinary piece combining legal analysis with organizational behavior/psychology research. (ssrn.com)
  • The purpose of the award scholarship is to facilitate graduate students' research at the intersection of psychology and social justice, including (but not limited to) the study of stigma, prejudice, discrimination, diversity, intergroup relations, and/or underrepresented social identities. (ucla.edu)
  • Intergroup conflict is apparent throughout the globe today, fueled by prejudice and discrimination. (bvsalud.org)
  • Critics of social psychology have heatedly argued that subtle prejudice, as I have described it, is not prejudice at all. (bvsalud.org)
  • Working Paper Series, Center for Labor Studies 2012:16, Uppsala University, Department of Economics. (repec.org)
  • Her research interests are in basic behavioral phenomena, such as response persistence, sensitivity to delayed outcomes, conditional discriminations, and environmental influences on drug effects. (abainternational.org)
  • This piece breaks new ground by drawing on existing scholarship in the psychology and organizational behavior field detailing the negative outcomes when employees suppress anger and other emotions in the workplace, particularly in response to perceived injustice. (ssrn.com)
  • Moderating the link between discrimination and adverse mental health outcomes: Examining the protective effects of cognitive flexibility and emotion regulation. (bvsalud.org)
  • Learning Sciences faculty provide support to the graduate programs across the department, and also contribute to undergraduate teacher education in elementary and secondary methods in science, mathematics, and technology education, as well as general survey courses in learning and research. (isls.org)
  • EDPS faculty believe we must all share in the responsibility to support equity, diversity, and inclusivity in our department, college, and university with the goal to eradicate racism in all forms. (isls.org)
  • Psychology faculty support you on your journey to become an outstanding collaborative scholar with robust research experience. (nd.edu)
  • If you are conducting, or are planning to conduct, research that contributes to the understanding, reduction or elimination of discrimination in the workplace, we invite you to apply for the WEDI Graduate Research Fund, made available through the generous donations of I/O faculty and alumni. (uoguelph.ca)
  • In Psychology you will learn about basic processes of cognition and behavioural neuroscience, including the effects of brain damage or drug-induced changes on behaviour, how various neurochemicals affect behaviour, mechanisms of memory, motor control, and how we solve problems. (queensu.ca)
  • Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behaviour. (mta.ca)
  • A number of the investigations launched in relation to the Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour department have now been completed. (mcmaster.ca)
  • The topics include work-family issues, occupational health issues faced by emergency medical personnel, the transition to telework, discrimination against Asian-Americans, work stressors, presenteeism, the need for supportive supervision, safety concerns, economic stressors, and reminders of death at work. (cdc.gov)
  • Future research is needed to investigate cognitive flexibility as a transdiagnostic mechanism underlying the onset and development of anxiety , to potentially lead to novel prevention or intervention for marginalized people facing additional stressors like discrimination. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Department of Educational Psychology in the College of Education at the University of Utah invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Learning and Cognition, with primary responsibilities in the Learning Sciences program. (isls.org)
  • The features of the undergraduate program also make Brandeis psychology graduates especially attractive to employers in the mental health and business professions. (brandeis.edu)
  • Given the broad training in quantitative and research skills, psychology students are sought after in a wide range of professional areas including marketing and consulting, government and public policy, and social and mental health services. (brandeis.edu)
  • The program examines the most up-to-date psychological research and theory and also provides opportunities for direct involvement in clinical, mental-health, business, and educational applications of psychology. (brandeis.edu)
  • Factors (e.g., stigma, discrimination) that affect the mental health of Muslim and other Middle Eastern Americans and barriers that prevent these populations from seeking professional mental health services. (miami.edu)
  • Discrimination is associated with mental health problems. (bvsalud.org)
  • For more information, please visit the Psychology undergraduate website . (queensu.ca)
  • Students desiring such consideration or more information should consult with the Undergraduate office in Psychology. (queensu.ca)
  • An undergraduate major in psychology is highly desirable for admission to this program, however, outstanding students with majors in other fields are also encouraged to apply. (memphis.edu)
  • The focus of the department is on basic scientific research and emphasizes a high level of undergraduate involvement. (brandeis.edu)
  • Students cannot complete more than 15 credits of Psychology Internship during the undergraduate program. (marist.edu)
  • The university has a responsibility to ensure that its sexual violence and discrimination and harassment policies are put into action whenever such allegations are made. (mcmaster.ca)
  • She is also the co-founder of Spot , a start-up that helps employees report workplace harassment and discrimination, and employers take action. (thersa.org)
  • Notre Dame's Department of Psychology advances human flourishing through rigorous research, innovative interventions, and world-class teaching and mentorship. (nd.edu)
  • Through coursework, research involvement, and applied experience, the Department of Psychology offers students the opportunity to explore questions like these. (brandeis.edu)
  • The department of Linguistics heartily congratulates Dr. Murray Munro whose ground-breaking research in applied linguistics has changed the way we think about second language acquisition and the intelligibility of second language learners. (sfu.ca)
  • It will also engage students in extensive outreach, education, and advocacy to ensure that scholarly work in the Du Bois Department has a global reach and accelerates the pace of research across disciplines. (umass.edu)
  • Dr. Lizabeth Roemer is Professor in the Department of Psychology at University of Massachusetts Boston, where she is actively involved in research and clinical training of doctoral students in clinical psychology. (adaa.org)
  • It is with the greatest of pleasure and deepest of gratitude that the Department of Psychology announces the Workplace Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Graduate Research Fund. (uoguelph.ca)
  • Unfortunately, psychology research over the years overwhelmingly indicates that a majority of people in America, police officers included, have one problematic bias in particular: Their reflexes consistently incline them to assume the worst about black people, while privileging whites. (bostonglobe.com)
  • The program of research of the Social and Organizational Psychology Research Lab investigates the process by which people regulate and control their social interaction with others at home and at work. (rutgers.edu)
  • There is some research in psychology showing that attractive men are more self-confident, and more hard-working, which should benefit them regardless of mode of instruction. (lu.se)
  • This study uses the natural experiment of the COVID-19 pandemic to evaluate whether the beauty premium for university grades is due to discrimination or differences in productivity. (lu.se)
  • Also reviewed are child development, individual differences, social psychology and clinical psychology. (queensu.ca)
  • Our pre-clinical psychology training provides all the necessary courses and credentials for admission to PhD programs in clinical psychology. (brandeis.edu)
  • Sarah Hayes-Skelton, PhD is an associate professor in the psychology department at the University of Massachusetts Boston where she is currently the director of clinical training for the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program. (adaa.org)
  • Dr. Hayes-Skelton completed a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in 2007. (adaa.org)
  • As professor emeritus, I have served 37-years as a tenured professor of psychology and health science at University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). (alaska.edu)
  • Amy Odum is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Utah State University. (abainternational.org)
  • Eva Hoff is an associate professor at Lund University and has worked at the department of psychology, LU, since 2008. (lu.se)
  • The current study incorporated cognitive flexibility to investigate its potential buffering effects on discrimination-related anxiety . (bvsalud.org)
  • Our findings indicated that emotion regulation difficulty (ERD) mediated the relationship between discrimination and anxiety , while cognitive flexibility had a strong moderating effect on the relationship between ERD and anxiety . (bvsalud.org)
  • Although federal law prohibits employment discrimination through a number of statutes such as the VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, federal law does not explicitly prohibit discrimination toward working caregivers. (wikipedia.org)
  • UAF is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, educational institution and provider and prohibits illegal discrimination against any individual. (uaf.edu)
  • As a result of employer assumptions based on stereotypes, caregiver discrimination has widespread economic, and health effects on workers, particularly for women, LGBTQ+ people, and low-wage workers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Speak with their Psychology major advisor regarding planning their academic program. (marist.edu)
  • This form must be signed by the student's academic advisor, Internship Coordinator, and the Chair of the Psychology Department in order to authorize the abroad internship. (marist.edu)
  • Once acquired, the discriminations were specific to walking and stimulus format but generalized across actors. (ox.ac.uk)
  • In the visual discrimination learning and reversal task, rats were initially required to discriminate a stimulus positively associated with reward. (jneurosci.org)
  • In the Health and Retirement Study, participants who perceived discrimination increased in their tendency to experience negative emotions (neuroticism), decreased in their tendency to be trusting (agreeableness), and decreased in their tendency to be organized and disciplined (conscientiousness). (ed.gov)
  • The Barker Lab is part of the Department of Psychology and the Brain Health Institute at Rutgers University. (rutgers.edu)
  • The diagnosis rate for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) ({annual number of individual AIDS patients diagnosed and reported to the health department/annual number of discharges} x 1,000) was the only hospital-specific characteristic associated with hospital-specific seroprevalence. (cdc.gov)
  • There are socioeconomic and gender disparities associated with caregiver discrimination. (wikipedia.org)
  • Humanities scholar Angie Chau, who teaches Chinese literature and film in UVic's Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, poses this question in her upcoming paper to be presented in June at an international conference , with a version appearing in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality . (uvic.ca)
  • She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Vermont's Human Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory after earning her Ph.D. and M.A. in Psychology, specializing in Behavior Analysis, from West Virginia University. (abainternational.org)
  • Adrian Mehic is a doctoral student at Department of Economics and Centre for Economic Demography. (lu.se)
  • This course is an introduction to psychology as a behavioral science required of the psychology major with enrollment restricted to them. (ncat.edu)
  • In this study, we examined whether experiences with discrimination were associated with maladaptive changes in the 5 major dimensions of personality using 2 longitudinal samples that differed in age and follow-up interval. (ed.gov)
  • The main objective of the psychology major is to help students develop a solid background in the scientific method and a strong foundation in the fundamentals of psychology, making them highly competitive candidates for postgraduate study and also preparing them to be thoughtful, analytic, and discerning problem solvers. (brandeis.edu)
  • Internship experiences may NOT be used to fulfill the Psychology electives requirement of the Psychology major. (marist.edu)
  • The study examined workplace violence prevention training, and incidents of violent events and subsequent injury among emergency department employees of acute-care hospitals in New Jersey. (cdc.gov)
  • The course begins with examination of the Black psychology paradigm, its history, and its applications. (ncat.edu)
  • His work is recognized internationally for refuting widely-held assumptions that the window of opportunity for successful speech learning closes in childhood, with implications for psychology and child development. (sfu.ca)
  • As a department, we commit to listening, learning, reflecting on our own practices, and doing our part to affirm Black lives and better understand, teach about, and work to change racist systems and structures. (smcm.edu)
  • One goal is to develop different interventions for a sustainable work life, both anti-discrimination, creativity and well-being workshops for organizations exist and preliminary results indicate that REACT-equal raise compassion and decrease stigmatizing thought, and that TREAT has an effect on well-being. (lu.se)
  • In anonymous unlinked serologic surveys conducted by CDC, 0.2%-8.9% of persons receiving care in emergency departments and 0.1%-7.8% of persons admitted to acute-care hospitals were HIV antibody positive (8-10). (cdc.gov)
  • Medical Device : Virtual reality-based Emotional intelligence Enhancement Program (VEEP) is an emotional intelligence enhancement program that includes elements of emotion recognition (self-emotion discrimination) and emotion regulation. (who.int)
  • Perceived discrimination is common and a significant source of stress that may have implications for personality development across adulthood. (ed.gov)
  • Apply to Psychology Graduate Programs in the left column, and the Instructions for Applying link. (memphis.edu)
  • However, the beauty premium persisted for males, suggesting that discrimination is a salient factor in explaining the grade beauty premium for females only. (lu.se)
  • These findings suggest that the beauty premium is likely to be due to a productive trait for males, and the result of discrimination for females. (lu.se)
  • The module introduces key theories and concepts within social psychology. (lu.se)
  • In addition to addressing topics of oppression and discrimination in our curriculum, the topic of this coming year's Psychology Lecture Series will be "Intervention Science: Harnessing Psychology to Address Oppressive Systems" in which we hope our community can learn about and further discuss steps we can take toward change. (smcm.edu)
  • Phases of the intervention began with simple sound discriminations that became successively more complex, until they involved word discriminations. (wmich.edu)
  • This course examines the psychology of the African American / Black experience. (ncat.edu)
  • It also exposes unethical practices in language teaching and confronts discrimination against immigrants with foreign accents. (sfu.ca)